Best 5 quotes of Horton Foote on MyQuotes

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.